Installing 6.06 on SATA

[chandru.in]

Hi,

My friend has an 80GB SATA disk. When I tried to install Kubuntu 6.06 using normal procedure, it got stuck in partitioning. Do I have to supply any special boot parameter to enable SATA support?

If some one here has installed Kubuntu 6.06 on a SATA hard disk, please guide me.

[RenegadeAbe]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

I installed Kubuntu on a Seagate Barracuda 80Gb SATA 7300RPM.
I didnt have any problems. But mine was a clean install.
Do you have an OS already setup on your disk?

however, I did have a problem before just like yours (it hanged on the partitioning part of the install) but then I found out it was a bad burn of a downloaded iso since I couldnt use it to install on any other PC so I downloaded another copy and retried it . Viola, it worked.

[chandru.in]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

What device name did it assign to ur disks/partitions?

[RenegadeAbe]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

Im not entirely sure what you mean about device name

however on Disk&File Systems I have this:

Disk 'ATA ST380211AS
1 Partition 71.6GB / ext3 /dev/sda1
2 Partition 1 kb /dev/sda2
3 Partition 2.9GB none swap /dev/sda5

'lspci' command my sata comes out as
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)

'lshw' command gives me my disk info as:

*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: ST380211AS
vendor: ATA
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.AA
serial: 5PT0FV0E
size: 74GB
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
capacity: 71GB
capabilities: primary bootable
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
capacity: 2965MB
capabilities: extended partitioned partitioned:extended

Hope this will help

[alu23]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

Hi!

I had similar problems with my SATA-Disk/SATA-Controller.
What mainboard/chipset do you have?
My hdd was not reachable when trying to install 6.06. 6.06.1 brought support for my SATA-Controller.
Installing was still not possible because partitioning got stuck. The soloution here was to set the jumper on the harddisk for the 1.5 Gb/s limit.

I hope this will help you.

[chandru.in]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

<RenegadeAbe>
My friend's hard disk was not detected. In fact, "ls /dev/sd*" gives empty result.

<alu23>
The hardware vendor does not allow opening the cabinet cover due to warranty. The SATA chipset is "VIA" does Kubuntu 6.06 have support for VIA?

[alu23]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

Is it the VIA K8T800 with the VT8251 SATA cotroller?
Then you have the same problem like me. Kubuntu 6.06 does NOT support the VT8251 SATA controller, but 6.06.1 does!

If it is a different chip I can't exactly tell you what to do. You could give the 6.06.1 version a try anyway.

And if your hdd is detected but installation hangs while creating the partitions this may be the fault of the VIA chip (if it's a VT8251) which can't deal with SATA2 disks. You would have to limit the disk down to SATA1, I guess.

[jmanincharlotte]

Re: Installing 6.06 on SATA

I installed Kubuntu on a Seagate Barracuda 80Gb SATA 7300RPM.
I didnt have any problems. But mine was a clean install.
Do you have an OS already setup on your disk?

however, I did have a problem before just like yours (it hanged on the partitioning part of the install) but then I found out it was a bad burn of a downloaded iso since I couldnt use it to install on any other PC so I downloaded another copy and retried it . Viola, it worked.

I had the same exact thing happen to me. I have Kubuntu running on two different machines (both with SATA drives). With the first disc I burned, it stalled once on the live cd initial boot. When I went to install it to the hard drive it crashed about halfway through the install (right after the partition setup).

I downloaded another ISO from another site and burned it again. This time worked like a champ.